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A note on the history of handling in ports: from ancient to medieval cranes

The history of cranes in ports from speculative megalithic cranes, through ancient cranes up to the medieval cranes built before the industrial revolution.

A paper of the 12th IFToMM (International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science) World Congress, Besançon (France), June18-21, 2007,
by N. Zrnić(University Belgrade), K. Hoffmann (TU Wien) and S. Bošnjak (University Belgrade).
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